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‘What do you do when the baby is sleeping?’ T ‘What do you do when the baby is sleeping?’ This question 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ it’s like people expect new mums (or just mums in general tbh) to be utterly bored and aimless when their children are asleep. Eliza’s napping is unpredictable at best. It’s like playing naptime roulette - you never know if you’re going to get 20 minutes or an hour out of her. So when she does decide she wants to nap, I run around like a blue-assed fly trying to get the house cleaned up, dress myself, actually EAT something, and generally reset everything until she wakes back up and we’re on Eliza Time again. And sometimes, just sometimes, when my daughter is asleep... I do literally nothing at all. ☮️
Things I miss since becoming a mum: - Being able Things I miss since becoming a mum: - Being able to wear my hair down - baby grabby hands are a force to be reckoned with - Being able to just ‘pop out’ without it turning into a military operation - Any semblance of alone time - Watching a film from start to finish without having to pause and rewind it all the time It goes without saying that I love being Eliza’s mother, but I’d be lying if I said that there weren’t times where I missed how our lives were before. It doesn’t make you a ‘Bad Parent’ to be slightly mournful over the person you were pre-child. The transition into parenthood is pretty damn sudden, and completely unknown until you’re living it 24/7 😅 Plus, no one expects you to be loving life midway through the third nappy blowout of the morning 😂
Another first: our first family outing to an indoo Another first: our first family outing to an indoor activity! Now that things are opening up again here in the U.K., we took Eliza to a local butterfly garden at the weekend. And she loved it! She especially loved the big blue ones 🦋 we had to stop her grabby hands from getting too close to them a few times 😅 Seriously though, having not had to be anywhere at a set time for such a long time, how to parents do it?! We’re either super early or running in late, NEVER on time! My hat goes off to parents who get places on time with everyone and everything in tow - it’s a real talent!
6 months! Now that Eliza is half a year (seriousl 6 months! Now that Eliza is half a year (seriously, HOW did this happen??) we’ve been introducing food alongside her normal milk feeds. We started with broccoli 🥦 and then we had some potato 🥔 . The purées went down fine - we preloaded the spoon and gave it to her to do what she liked with it. Some of it went in her mouth, some of it went on her face, a lot of it went on the floor 😅 heaven forbid you try to spoon feed her though - she clamps her mouth shut and isn’t having any of it 😂 She’s not sure what to do with the solid bits of food just yet, but we’re sure she’ll get used to that sooner or later!
‘Kindness begins with the understanding that we ‘Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.’ So much of what we *think* we know about people is gleaned through social media. There are things we gladly share through here, and things we choose to keep to ourselves. Being a parent is tough. Full stop. It doesn’t matter whether you have a whole army around you or not, it’s tough. And it’s hard for a huge variety of reasons. It’s not a competition. It’s certainly not a case of going ‘well your life looks like this, so therefore you have no reason to be finding things hard.’ Our feelings don’t need to be justified in someone else’s eyes, and neither does our personal mental health. Things can be hard for us all. Just be kind.
Postpartum mental health - the topic we all LOVE t Postpartum mental health - the topic we all LOVE to avoid 😅 So I’ve been pretty quiet on here recently. Truth be told, I’ve not really wanted to share much about why, until I’ve started opening up more to those around me and realised that I’m definitely NOT going through this alone. I’ve always struggled with anxiety and my general mental well-being. Being a first time mum, I wasn’t totally sure whether what I’ve been feeling is ‘normal’, or something else. Without going into huge amounts of personal detail, I’m currently waiting to be seen by a therapist about postnatal anxiety and OCD (which I didn’t even realise was a thing). But, with the huge impact the pandemic has had on SO many parents, the waiting list is pretty damn big 😬 If anyone out there reading this is feeling like everything is too much of a struggle, get in touch with the resources there to help you. Even knowing that what I’m experiencing has a name has helped me a lot. In more positive news, Eliza is still an absolute gem and I’m still head over heels in love with her 💚
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